rpgs, pajama police
God damn it, I have a PC I NEED to play in a supers campaign and zero prospect. And it's one that I wouldn't dare spring on a newbie GM because it's admittedly REALLY EXTRA.
It's a Batman-style detective who is stuck in his own chronic multiversal mini-Crisis.
Every single session he's replaced by another version from another era and style. Different costume, same basic secret identity, historically scaled a la Wandavision.
One session, he's the Wacky Golden Age Kid-Friendly TV version of himself and he can't stop getting the team into pie fights.
The next, he's the grim AMC Prestige Drama version and he's in debt to the mob-- which he also secretly, amnesiacally runs. He's Very Complicated.
The next, he's written by someone with an axe to grind and gets to have a One More Day experience[1].
He retains his memories. He knows this is happening. He knows he's different day to day, but he feels exactly the same. He can't remember what year he was born, and he's pretty sure he remembers at least twice as many birthdays as the his age on his ID.
And it all fucks his shit up something fierce. There's one thing they all have in common: the later in the timeline the character is from-- for any meta-level of "timeline"-- the darker and sadder he is.
The GM chooses the multiverse/genre/writer/era/theme for each session and I totally remake the character to suit it. I get no choice in the selection whatsoever.
[1] notoriously awful and contentious Spider-Man arc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_One_More_Day
rpgs, pajama police
hmmmm...
I think if I were GMing for this I'd want like a pair of random roll charts one for background and one for tone. Then just roll them the day before each game to give the player a chance to make small ability changes to fit the result, and prepare their schtick for that version.
